Improvement in whip-tip ferrules



E. B. LIGHT.

Whip-Tip Fe rrule.

N0. 159,105. v I Patentedlan.26,1875.

UNITED STATES EDIVARD B. LIGHT, OF DENVER, COLORADO TERRITORY.

IMPROVEMENT IN WHlP -TIP FE RRULES.

Specification forming part of Letters Patent No. 159,105, dated January 26,1875; application filed October 17, 1874.

, .The-inventi'on will first be fully described,

and then pointed out in the claim.

A represents a whip-tip, and 13 represents a whip-stock, about the construction of which there is nothing new. O is a ferrule, which is so formed as to fit upon the adjacent ends of the tip A and stock 13. 1) is ashort solid cylinder, which is fitted into the center of the ferrule-O, and secured there by a pin, rivet, or screw, E is 'a rod, which passes longitudinally .throughthe centerot the cylinder-l), and is rigid] y secured to, said, cylinder. Upon each end of the rod E iisfin't -ascrew-thread, as shown in Fig. 2. I prefer, to cuta right-hand screw-thread upoir-oneccn d of, roll l and a left-hand screw-thread uponth'e other end of said rod; but this is not essential. If desired, one end of the rod E may be cut off or omitted, and that end of the ferrule O secured in place by teeth formed in the body of said ferrule O. In using the device the butt-end of the tip is screwed into the ferrule 0 until it strikes the end of the cylinder 1). The small end of the whip-stock B is afterward screwed into the other end of the ferrule C until it strikes against the end of the cylinder 1). A small quantity of a suitable glue or cement may be put into the ferrule C before screwing in the I parts A B, to fill the interstices and make the joint firm and strong. v

I am aware that ferrules have been used for covering the adjacent ends of a whip-tip and stock, and also that a screw has been used screwing; partly into each of said adjacent ends. These parts I do not claim, broadly; but I am aware that whips have been made with a "wire center in place of whalebone, and in two.

parts, the bottom part or butt having a wire center, and in some cases the wire extending beyond the rattan and provided with a screw on it. The butt is then screwed on the point, and the joint in the whip is covered with a ferrule. But this is a process of making a whip. The dili'erence between mine and this class of whips is, that the screw and ferrule are one in mine, while in these the whip is secured to the handle. -I use a ferrule having a screw in its center, made solid, which becomes a manufacture, which is sold independently of the whip,'so that by different sizes of ferrules a whip, when broken, can be cut into at the break and conveniently and immediately repaired without the use of any tool whatever. This ferrule is also applicable to the repairing and making of fish-rods, fastening cane-heads on canes, 85c.

Having thus described my invention, I claim as new and desire to secure by Letters Iatent.

As a new article of manufacture, a tube, I),

provided with opposite'serewsE E, as and for the purpose described.

- EDW. B. LIGHT.

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